Example sentences of "to move [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Groups tend to move through four different stages on their way to becoming effective in the sense described .
2 ‘ Whereas the lives of humans , and other linear races in the cosmos , are constrained to four dimensions , we are privileged to move through seven . ’
3 A common and simple theory is based on the double potential well model in which an element ( chain segment , defect or other unit ) is free to move between two sites of differing free energy over a free-energy barrier .
4 Miller considered that ‘ local effects seem to move about one tenth of local voters away from their national preferences and towards ‘ less political ’ candidates … .
5 The first one was half of us were blindfolded and we were set out in a line and the rest had to move about 5–10 metres away and stand in a line .
6 Young Lisa Hammond 's survival depended on an operation that would leave her in pain and unable to move for six months .
7 According to teletext , he is set to move for 2.7 million , text also says that it is a boardroom decision to sell him , he is currently in talks with Kenny daglesh .
8 The experience left him unable to move for ten hours .
9 Well we 've wanted to move for twenty five years possibly .
10 The first department to move onto three shift operation some time ago was the Wilton weaving .
11 In their quest for greater public acceptability , science museums have tended to move in two different , and not always compatible , directions .
12 Churchwarden at Middleton-St-George Christian Duff said : ‘ We will have to wait for someone who does not mind the possibility of having to move in five years time . ’
13 I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London .
14 They will probably have two eyes , two hands , two legs with which to move in one direction at a time .
15 The survey shows that more people were prepared to move in 1983 than in 1977 .
16 Joseph protested that he could not be ready to move in thirty days .
17 ALAN McCann and Philip Murray won the Newry Club 's Circuit of Down Rally last night to move within two points of the leaders in the WS Mercer Northern Ireland navigation championship .
18 It was the Yorkshireman 's second win in two days and his reward was to move within one win of a place in the last 32 .
19 While a point puts City closer to safety , a point slows Wednesday down and allows Arsenal to move within three points of them in fourth .
20 The constructed index is transformed so as to move from 0 in 1970 Q4 to a peak of unity assumed to be reached in 1989 Q4 .
21 The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things .
22 For example : to move from one foot to two in any glissade , it can and should be when first studied a smooth gliding movement as it is when Albrecht gently draws Giselle to sit on the bench before telling her of his love .
23 The current Indian election was spread over three days to enable security forces to move from one area to another ; but even so the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are reported to have used musclemen to capture booths in the first round of the election .
24 As early as August 1986 he wrote to South West Water 's headquarters in Exeter complaining that ‘ we seem to move from one crisis to another .
25 The kind of structure the authors mostly discuss is to do with how to move from one dramatic experience into another in a way that tightens the pupils ' grip on the central issue .
26 Plasmids that do not carry fertility genes are unable to move from one bacterium to another , but they can be mobilised by plasmids which do have them .
27 Children start in the beginners group and when they prove to have good contact with parents , the ability to understand instructions and to move from one position to another they move on to the advanced group which is for children over the age of two , still with parents accompanying .
28 Hot and cold plunge baths were provided and it was the custom to move from one room to another , sometimes bathing , sometimes playing games or exercising , or simply relaxing in the warmth and enjoying oneself .
29 The hypothesis suggests that if natural order is valid , then in order to move from one stage to the next highest stage the acquirer must understand input from this next highest stage , where understanding is concerned with meaning and the form of the message .
30 East Anglian RMT spokesman Peter King said BR employees were prepared to move from one part of the country to another to avoid compulsory redundancies .
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